Chapter 715
"What? You say we should go and deal with those three in S. H. I. E. L. D. first? If there are three in S. H. I. E. L. D. as well, doesn't that mean there are six in total?!"
Stark slapped his forehead, and then he heard Nick on the other side say righteously:
"You have no idea how much trouble he has brought to S. H. I. E. L. D.'s work! He falsified financial reports, made unauthorized personnel transfers, participated in illegal human experiments... and more importantly, he has no morals!"
"I can't even think of enough evil words to describe him. Heroes of the Avengers, it is your responsibility to strike down such a person. Come over quickly and take him away!"
After hanging up the phone, Stark said in a heavy tone: "As I expected, there are three more in S. H. I. E. L. D., which means that in the upcoming battle, we have to face a total of six Schillers!"
"The question now is, does every Schiller have special abilities?" Steve raised a question, and then he added: "If every Schiller can turn into gray mist, that would be troublesome."
"Stop talking, I'm already getting a headache." Ma Te sighed and said: "If every one of them can turn into gray mist, we won't be able to catch him at all. Who has the ability to catch a cloud of mist?"
"In any case, we have to go and ask him first. If we can solve this problem peacefully, that would be best. But if we have to resort to violent means..." Stark drew out a long tone, and then said to Jarvis: "Prepare vacuum cleaners, all models of vacuum cleaners!"
Hearing that Stark had a way to restrain Schiller, several people breathed a sigh of relief, but they soon realized that things were far from that simple.
Just as the Avengers were preparing to go to Arkham Asylum as a group to investigate, Peter paused, then turned to look at Stark and said: "Just now, Silk contacted me urgently through the spiders. The Spider-Men have also received the job of capturing Schiller across the entire multiverse..."
"What Silk? What multiverse?" Stark looked him up and down and said: "Peter, did you stay up late playing games again? Now you're starting to talk nonsense."
Peter was stunned for a moment, then remembered the Stark he had seen in the future. He had completely forgotten that he had been to the multiverse, so perhaps he didn't know about it now either.
Because Peter had traveled to the future timeline earlier, he had not witnessed the restart of the universe with his own eyes. Therefore, he did not know that Stark had been reset to the state before everything happened due to the restart, so he did not have this memory.
He had to spend a long time explaining to Stark what was going on, and then he heard Stark say: "We are going to catch Schiller just to figure out what is going on, and we must ensure that so many different Schillers will not cause harm to the world."
"But the group of Spider-Men you mentioned are acting under some eternal order to capture Schiller. They are very likely trying to kill Schiller. I don't agree with them entering our universe."
Steve also chimed in: "We want to solve the mess Schiller has caused, or prevent the mess he might cause in the future, because everyone knows that with so many Schillers, if any of them really lose control, it would be terrible. But we don't want to eliminate him."
"If the Spider-Men from other universes are misled and want to kill Schiller, that would be troublesome. Not to mention whether they can do it, what if Schiller is provoked and both sides start fighting? Wouldn't Earth suffer in the end?"
"Therefore, I must go over." Peter said very firmly: "If they dare to hurt Dr. Schiller, I will definitely stop them at the first opportunity."
Stark and Steve got together, the two of them stared at Peter, and Stark whispered: "It sounds like that multiverse is a pretty dangerous thing. Is it really okay for him to just go over like that?"
"I don't think so. After all, he just started college. What about your mechs? And Shi Difen's magic, demon contracts, symbiotes, bring him more, even if he doesn't use them, it's better to be safe than sorry..."
Stark nodded in agreement, then he snapped his fingers and said: "Come here, kid, come back to Stark Tower with me. You won't be leaving the house without being fully prepared..."
"No! Wait a minute! Mr. Stark... I already have, I mean, I already have a lot of preparations, there's really no need to..."
Ten minutes later, Peter, glowing all over, appeared at the Spider-Men's base. As soon as he landed, he caught everyone's attention because he really looked too much like a shining disco ball.
Peter sighed deeply, and the Amazing Spider-Man walked up, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Went back to recharge again? Looks like you brought more stuff, just in time to be useful..."
"Don't mention it." Peter said somewhat depressed, then he looked into the crowd and saw a familiar figure, it was Otto Parker.
"Saw that guy, right?" The Amazing Spider-Man tilted his chin in that direction and said: "He's like a different person, becoming more like Peter Parker. I said before that an imposter had replaced him, you guys didn't believe me. Now it looks like they should have switched back."
"But, where did the previous Superior Spider-Man go?" Peter asked with some confusion, because in his intuition, although that Superior Spider-Man was a bit too violent, he wasn't a bad person. If he disappeared, Peter felt it was a bit of a pity.
"Heard you just started college, but you're the strongest one here." Otto Parker walked over, but Peter silently took a step back and said: "What are you doing? Do you still want to fight me?"
"No, I want to say, I'm really sorry, I was a bit impulsive before, I shouldn't have fought you. We should unite and put the big picture first." Otto Parker walked over and patted Peter on the shoulder, but just then, a device on his wrist that looked a bit like a teleporter emitted a familiar voice:
"Don't apologize to him, he almost broke your tentacles. If you ask me, you should beat him up again, he must be out of power now!"
From the tone, one could tell that this was probably the guy who controlled Otto Parker before. Peter flexed his wrists, looked at Otto Parker and said: "Come on, let's have another match!"
"Alright, stop messing around." Captain Universe Spider-Man walked over, separated the two of them, and then said to Peter: "I was just about to tell you about this, remember the mission I received earlier?"
"I came over just to ask about this." Peter also looked at him.
"Eternity revealed more to me. He said that in the dreams of this doctor named Schiller Rodriguez, there are many things that shouldn't appear in this universe, which is very likely to cause the universe to collapse."
Captain Universe Spider-Man's tone was very serious, and he didn't seem to be lying. Peter frowned deeply.
"He told me that originally, there should only be one Schiller Rodriguez in the entire multiverse, but for some reason, he created many dream universes and punched a hole in the boundary of the dream universes, letting the versions of him in those dreams run out."
"These people will greatly reduce the stability of the universe. If they are not caught back, it will really cause a big mess."
"But we can't hurt Dr. Schiller." Peter emphasized again: "He is a good person, he saved many people, and changed the fate of many people..."
"I know, don't get excited." Captain Universe Spider-Man sighed and said: "Eternity told me that we must capture these Schillers who ran out of the dream universes, but we cannot hurt him."
"Why is that?" asked the Spider-Man in the black suit, Spider-Man Noir.
"To be precise, we cannot have too much interaction with him. If we can capture him without showing ourselves, that would be best."
Captain Universe Spider-Man kept changing his gestures, seemingly unsure how to explain to these Spider-Men the information Eternity had conveyed to him.
"Simply put, our universe has stability. If some creatures that don't belong here run in, the stability will decrease. Once it drops to a critical value, the universe will collapse."
"However, this stability is not reduced because those strange creatures are causing destruction, but because he has interacted with the characters in the original universe."
"The longer the time spent meeting and interacting, the faster the stability decreases. Therefore, our purpose in capturing him is not to eliminate him, or to prevent him from causing destruction, but to prevent him from interacting with the creatures of this universe."
"Therefore, the simpler the process of capturing him, the better. It is best to set up traps in advance so that we don't have to show ourselves, don't have to see him, don't have to talk to him, and don't have to listen to him, and we can send him back to the original universe. This is the best."
"If we all get into a fight with him, the stability will definitely decrease rapidly. Moreover, the more he reveals his strange aspects, that is, the parts that do not belong to the scope of this universe, the faster the stability will decrease."
Captain Universe explained a long string in one breath, leaving everyone a bit confused.
Peter understood, but he didn't understand the principle at all. Just as he wanted to ask more, Captain Universe said: "Due to certain reasons, Eternity couldn't explain it too clearly to me, otherwise the stability would also drop. In short, we have received a difficult task..."
"To send all the Schiller Rodriguezs back to their original dream universes in the simplest way. It needs to be divided into three steps."
"The first step is that we have to find the dream universe he originally belonged to. The second step is that we have to catch these Schillers who are running around and send them back. The third step is that we have to plug the holes that appeared on the walls of the dream universes to prevent him from running out again."
"Sounds as simple as putting cheese in the fridge." The Amazing Spider-Man commented, but at this moment Peter was already frozen in place, and he said: "... You are probably dreaming."
"Except for the first step which is slightly simpler, the last two steps are hell-level difficulty. We can't even show ourselves, how are we supposed to capture Dr. Schiller?" Peter asked incredulously.
"Don't worry, Eternity gave me some of this target's weaknesses. We can use these weaknesses to create traps. For example, the weaknesses mention that he will turn into a cloud of gray mist. We can fully utilize high-gravity devices to suck weapons into a certain piece of equipment, which is using a vacuum cleaner..."
"A vacuum cleaner?" Peter showed a difficult expression. He always felt that this method was too sloppy.
But unexpectedly, this method was unanimously agreed upon by the other Spider-Men. Soon, the few people with the strongest scientific research capabilities in the team began to jointly develop a vacuum cleaner trap, including Peter, who was personally certified by the Amazing Spider-Man as a little scientific research expert.
Participating in the experiment, Peter became much more focused. Not long after, they came up with a simple version of the vacuum cleaner trap and planned to find a Schiller from a universe to test it out.
"Go to my universe." The communicator on Otto Parker's wrist transmitted Otto's voice, and he said: "After I returned to my universe, I discovered suspicious figures on the monitors in New York. He is definitely not a native of this universe, he should be that Schiller you mentioned."
"Alright, but I must be by his side the whole time. I have to make sure this machine won't really hurt Dr. Schiller." Peter said very firmly.
No sooner said than done, several Spider-Men carried the not-too-large vacuum cleaner trap and arrived at Otto Parker's universe through Silk's teleportation.
The place where they landed was on the roof of the Parker Industries building, which was the tallest building in all of New York, so the entire city was in full view.
"That suspicious figure often appears at dusk. He likes to stand on the edge of very tall buildings and look down at the entire city. We can place this trap on the roof of the building he visits most often, so he is very likely to step on it."
Otto proposed the simplest method, and Otto Parker, controlled by Peter Parker, echoed: "I don't think there's any problem. Let me see... it's this building. Let's go set up the trap here first."
"I always feel that you guys think of everything too simply." Peter sighed and shook his head, but didn't say anything more.
After the trap was set up, the other Spider-Men stayed on the roof of Parker Industries, each with a telescope, looking at the building where the trap was set.
At dusk, the huge setting sun lingered on the coastline, illuminating the entire New York City in a dim yellow. Suddenly, a small black dot appeared in the sky over New York.
Then, like a rootless duckweed, he drifted down slowly from mid-air, appearing very small under the afterglow of the setting sun.
Soon, he stood on the edge of the roof of a building, looking down at the entire city. Peter took a telescope and looked carefully, then he exclaimed: "His eyes! How are his eyes..."
But at this time, Captain Universe Spider-Man discovered that the target was not standing on the roof of the building where the trap was located, so he said: "Prepare to execute Plan B!"
In an instant, Spider-Men who were lying in ambush appeared on the roofs of many surrounding buildings. The content of Plan B was to rely on the Spider-Men's siege to force the target onto the trap.
Following Captain Universe Spider-Man's order, countless Spider-Men leaped high, forming a siege circle, and pressed towards the figure in the center.
Peter reached out his hand and shouted: "Wait! Something's wrong! Don't go over!"
In an instant, the figure, which was made to look incomparably small by the setting sun, also soared into the air. After spinning in the air like a falling leaf, he descended rapidly, and a cold voice resounded through the New York sky:
"Shinra Tensei!"
End of Chapter
